AI videos, fear, and communal polarization: Inside BJP’s hateful digital campaign in Bengal
The battle for West Bengal has, this election cycle, been defined less by governance and more by an unrelenting churn of communal politics. What was once one strand among many...
Women’s quota or delimitation? Media misrepresents facts, Modi misleads nation
A day after a Constitution amendment bill seeking to redistribute Lok Sabha seats on the basis of the 2011 Census was stalled in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an...
Union minister of law and justice Kiren Rijiju recently tweeted a clip of Delhi education minister Atishi Marlena admonishing authorities of a school for its poor maintenance during an apparent…
Social media and mainstream media are rife with the claim that slain gangster Atiq Ahmed, who was a Samajwadi Party MP from 2004 to 2008, supported the UPA when it…
Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence/Abuse. Graphic Imagery Three pictures of a heavily injured woman have gone viral on social media. Right Wing political activist Sadhvi Prachi shared the images on Facebook…
Asad, the son of slain gangster Atiq Ahmed, and Ghulam, one of Asad’s associates, were killed in encounter with UP Police on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Jhansi. The two…
Almost a week since former Jammu & Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik’s explosive interview with senior journalist Karan Thapar for The Wire, no mainstream TV news channel has yet managed to…
A 30-second video clip is doing the rounds on social media with the claim that some people from the Muslim community pelted stones at the participants of a Shobha Yatra…
History sheeter and five-time MLA Atiq Ahmed, 62, and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by three assailants in Prayagraj on the night of April 15 while being escorted by…
A nine-second video clip of Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has been making the rounds on social media platforms. In the video clip, Gehlot remarks, “Amritpal Singh is saying that…
A video clip is making rounds on social media with the claim that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was ‘foolishly’ seen offering a handshake to a differently-abled person in a public…
In an in-depth report published on April 3, Alt News exposed how 23 websites hosted on a single IP address (13.232.63.153) spent crores of rupees creating ‘disclaimers’ to run political…